The Barnet
Football Club Supporters Association wishes to confirm
its support for the planning application recently
announced by Tony Kleanthous, Barnet FC Chairman, for the
development of Underhill Stadium.

The BFCSA committee
consulted with its members on the ground issue at our
recent AGM, and we see these plans as a positive step
into upgrading Underhill to host League football in the
short to medium term.

Visiting fans are
genuinely shocked and amazed at the lack of facilities
currently on offer at Underhill. We applaud the club for
the big efforts taken over the last year to improve the
ageing stadium. These new plans, if passed, will continue
to improve Underhill and so we urge Barnet Council to
approve them in the coming months.

However, the committee
are under no illusion that the club's biggest battle is
to have a suitable and financially sustainable stadium to
play our home games at. A modern stadium that is fit for
League football, and which gives the club potential not
just to survive against the odds in the Football League,
but to grow and compete as a progressive League club.

We urge supporters, the
local community and Barnet Council to remember this issue
and realise that if a long term future cannot be secured
within the borough, there will be no alternative but to
recommend that the club consider alternative venues
outside the borough to ensure the long term future of our
football club in the football league.

It was not so long ago
that Barnet played League games against the likes of
Fulham and Wigan, and look at the progress these clubs
have made.

We wish Paul Fairclough
and the new squad every success for the forthcoming
season and hope that we see success both on and off the
pitch during the next 12 months.